26 NOCTUlDiB. 



band narrow, wlutisli, oblique from costa to vein 4 and obsolescent 

 towards inner margin, some whitish at apex, cilia white, brownish 

 at tips; hind wing with the basal and inner areas wiiite, the rest 

 of wing black-brown, a narrow white postmedial band, oblique to 

 vein 4 and ending at tornus. 



Hah. U.S.A., Eastern States, 2 S . Eccp. 68 millim. 



Larva. Kellicott, Papilio, i. p. 141. 



Grey with a greenish tinge; dorsal line rather indistinct, formed 

 by a series of black points ; subdorsal line more prominent with a 

 series of >-shaped marks on the abdominal somites ; lateral stripe 

 still more prominent and continuous, the spiracles defined by black; 

 warts white, each with a brown hair, the warts on 1st ^omite 

 black : lateral fringes hoary ; ventral surface bluish Avhite with black 

 and flesh-coloured spots, the thoracic somites with elliptical flesh- 

 coloured patches, the 4th, oth, lOth, and lltli somites with similar 

 black patches, the 6th and 7th somites with reddish spots edged in 

 front with black, the 8th and Oth with similar patches not defined 

 by black in front ; head bluish grey with series of confluent whitish 

 spots, the vertex v^ith four black points, lateral black bars from 

 angles of jaws. Food-plant: Hickoxj {Gary a alba). 6. 



7143. Catabapta rohinsoni. (Plate CXCIII. fig. 4.) 



Catacala robinsoni, Grrote, Trans. Am. Ent. See. iv. p. 20 (1872): Street. 



Lap. Rhop. & Het. p. 71, pi. ix. f. 1 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. K Am. p. 351. 

 Gaiocala curvata, French, Papilio, i. p. 218 (1881). 



Head and thorax grej'-white mixed with brown ; palpi white at 

 base and black-brown towards extremity of 2nd joint ; sides of 

 fi-ons black; antennae blackish; tegulae brownish with black line 

 defined behind by white rear tips; patagia With some black scales 

 on edges ; pectus brownish white ; legs irrorated with brown, the 

 fore tibige at extremities and tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the ventral surface brownish white. Pore wing 

 grey-white suffused with brown and irrorated with black-brown ; 

 subbasal line black, angled outwards below costa and ending at 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black, forming a small sp.t at 

 costa, oblique, sinuous ; reniform large, rounded, with slight whitish 

 annulus defined by blackish ; an oblique brown striga from middle 

 of costa to the reniform ; an obliquely curved pale mark defined by 

 blackish below end of cell, connected with the postmedial line, which 

 is blackish slightly defined on outer side by white, bent outwards 

 below costa, then oblique and slightly sinuoUs, acutely angled out- 

 Wards above and below vein 5, then dentate, at vein 2 forming 

 the sinus below end of cell and strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 gubterminal line diffused, whitish slightly defined on outer side by 

 btown, dentate, oblique from costa to below vein 6 ; a series of 

 blackish points defined on outer side by whitish before termen ; the 

 veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks. Hind wing black- 

 broWn with some greyish hair at base ; cilia pure white except 

 towards tornus. Underside of fore wing black-brown, some whitish 



